Research Group Benjamin Lange
Benjamin Lange
leads the MCML Junior Research Group ‘Ethics of Artificial Intelligence’ at LMU Munich.
He and his team conduct research into fundamental and application-related ethical issues relating to AI and ML. They deal with fundamental and practical questions of AI ethics from a philosophical-analytical perspective. By organizing conferences, workshops and panel discussions, the group aims to enter into an interdisciplinary exchange with researchers from philosophy and other disciplines. An important focus here is also communication with the wider public about the moral and social aspects of AI. Another important task of the JRG is the transfer of philosophical-ethical findings and results into practice, for example through collaborations and dialogue with industry and society.
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2026
Calibrated Epistemic Deference to Conversational AI in Mental Healthcare.
American Journal of Bioethics. May. 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Epistemic Trust as a Mechanism for Ethics Integration: Failure Modes and Design Principles from 70 Moral Imagination Workshops.
Preprint (Apr. 2026). arXiv
Unilateral Relationship Revision Power in Human-AI Companion Interaction.
Preprint (Mar. 2026). arXiv
2025
We Need Accountability in Human-AI Agent Relationships.
npj Artificial Intelligence 1.38. Nov. 2025. DOI
The Enmity Relationship as Justified Negative Partiality.
The Ethics of Relationships: Broadening the Scope. Aug. 2025. DOI
Evaluating Intra-firm LLM Alignment Strategies in Business Contexts.
Preprint (May. 2025). arXiv
Beyond the Ivory Tower? The Practical Role of Ethicists in Business.
Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneurship and Risk. Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / Futures of Technology, Science and Society. Apr. 2025. DOI
Beyond Deepfakes: 'Digital duplicates' or AI Simulations of Real People-An International Ethical Consensus.
Preprint (Mar. 2025). DOI
Relational Norms for Human-AI Cooperation.
Preprint (Feb. 2025). arXiv
Moral parenthood and gestation: replies to Cordeiro, Murphy, Robinson and Baron.
Journal of Medical Ethics 51.2. Jan. 2025. DOI
2024
Epistemic Deference to AI.
AISoLA 2024 - 2nd International Conference on Bridging the Gap Between AI and Reality. Crete, Greece, Oct 30-Nov 03, 2024. DOI
Moral Imagination for Engineering Teams: The Technomoral Scenario.
The International Review of Information Ethics 34.1. Oct. 2024. DOI
The impact of intelligent decision-support systems on humans' ethical decision-making: A systematic literature review and an integrated framework.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change 204.123403. Jul. 2024. DOI
A Framework for Assurance Audits of Algorithmic Systems.
ACM FAccT 2024 - 7th ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jun 03-06, 2024. DOI
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